"Koro-kun, Toyotomi Hideyoshi has arrived." At this time, a guard came in and said, Jiang De waved his hand and said, "Let him in." ”

Toyotomi Hideyoshi ran in with his head down, knelt down and said, "I've seen my lord." ”

Jiang De looked at this Toyotomi Hideyoshi had already changed into clothes at this time, although it was a coarse cloth, it was still decent, and his head and face had been washed, and it was clean.

"Oh, here, how many people have you recruited? How's it going? Who are they? Jiang De asked.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi replied, "Lord Hui, there are a total of eighteen men and women, all of whom are from poor backgrounds, and they are willing to die for adults!" It is now housed in a private house in the city. ”

Jiang De laughed and said, "Okay, ask you, are you familiar with this set?" ”

"The little one has been in Settsu for a few years, and it's very familiar."

"Okay, so do you know some of the northern samurai in Settsu?"

"The little ones know them, but they don't know the little ones."

"It's okay, it's good if you know each other, okay, you go and secretly recruit some poor people, how many people.... Just limit it to 100 people, and I will send someone to teach them, and you will follow suit. If you learn your skills, you will be able to do things for me in the future. ”

"The little ones must work hard to learn their skills and not disappoint the adults!"

Jiang De nodded and waved his hand to let him go down, Toyotomi Hideyoshi slowly left backwards, walked halfway, suddenly stopped, and asked, "Adult, the little one has something I want to ask." ”

Jiang De hummed and said, "You say." ”

"The adults are from the kingdom, and the little ones want to ask, are there so many poor people here in the kingdom?" Toyotomi Hideyoshi looked at Jiang De and asked.

Jiang De thought for a while, nodded, shook his head and said, "There are also many poor people in the Song Kingdom, if you want to talk about the number, because we have a lot of people in the Song Kingdom, I'm afraid there are still many poor people in us, but..."

Jiang De stood up and said with a smile, "But there are always some people in power who are willing to stand up and think of ways for these poor people, and make decisions for these poor people, when there are no people in power to make decisions for the people and the poor, our people will drive those who are in power down, and then find some people who are willing to make decisions for themselves to take power, so our country has two sayings, one is called the prince will be a kind of Xiangning?" One sentence is called that water can carry a boat or overturn a boat. The previous sentence said that there are no natural princes and generals in the world, as long as they are willing to fight, anyone can become a master, and a sentence says that the people in the world are actually supported by the people below, if they turn away from those people, these people will be taken down by the people, and finally die without a place to be buried! ”

Toyotomi Hideyoshi looked at Jiang De in a daze, and Jiang De sighed and said, "I think that these two sentences represent a spirit of our Han people, a spirit of courage to resist, as long as such a spirit is there, even if it is another thousand years, even if there is another Wuhu chaos, even if Shenzhou sinks, we Han people can stand up again!" ”

"What kind of prince will Xiangning? Can water carry a boat or capsize a boat? Toyotomi Hideyoshi muttered several times, then kowtowed violently and said, "The villain knows, the villain will definitely die for the adult!" With that, he walked away quickly.

Jiang De looked at Toyotomi Hideyoshi's back and asked suspiciously, "What does he know?" So excited...."

Seven or eight days later, Jiang De was shooting arrows with a bow in the house, when Hua Diao came over and said, "Xiao Langjun, Mr. Xu has sent a secret report that the lord of the Japanese kingdom has rejected our request for trade. But he was willing to make friends with us, and Mr. Xu said that he would continue to fight for it, and asked Xiao Langjun to decide on the next step. ”

"Medium!" Jiang De let go suddenly, and a feather arrow hit the target in the distance, Jiang De put down the bow, and said while stroking the bow of the bow, "Let Toyotomi Hideyoshi come, and in addition, go and hand over a post to the retainer here, just say that I want to visit him, and give him some gifts by the way." ”

"Yes!"

Not long after, Toyotomi Hideyoshi trotted in, and Lao Yuan knelt down with his head down and said, "Toyotomi Hideyoshi has seen an adult!" ”

Jiang De snorted and said, "These days, how much of the aristocratic situation have you mastered here?" Tell me about it. ”

Toyotomi Hideyoshi immediately said, "Back to my lord, the biggest family in Settsu is naturally the Settsu family, and there are also large families such as Hosokawa, Mita, and Asada..."

Toyotomi Hideyoshi kept talking about the situation of the various ethnic groups in Settsu, and a power map slowly appeared in Jiang De's mind, to put it simply, because there has been no major turmoil in Japan, the big clans in various places have been grasping the fields, mountains and forests in various places, and have become large and small landlords.

As in the aristocratic era of the Central Plains, the small haoqiang sought refuge from the big haoqiang, and the big haoqiang sought refuge from the official temple, or simply became an official or a temple, and in this way, there were more and more manors with the privilege of "not losing or entering". The so-called "no loss, no entry" means that there is no need to pay taxes to the state, nor do you have to accept the inspection of officials, in other words, it is complete private possession, which is actually similar to the Ming Dynasty in China, Ming Ming Dynasty has more land and people than the Song Dynasty, but it is not taxable.

At this time, the largest large landlord in the Wa Kingdom was the Fujiwara family, and the landlords who were sheltered under the name of the "Fujiwara family" were innumerable, and most of the financial income of the Wa Kingdom went into the pockets of the Fujiwara Seki family. Because of this, some people at the time called the Regent's house "a great harm in one day".

As for the Japanese royal family, there is naturally a lot of land, but compared to the Fujiwara family, it is a small thing, in order to revive the dynasty, Shirakawa also recruited a lot of heroes, and even took out his own land to reward some samurai, which is also the origin of the samurai in the north, after all, any military force costs money.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that there are very few people who have surnames in this period, to be precise, ordinary people in the Wa Kingdom only have names, no surnames, and nobles actually not only have surnames, but also Miao characters, Miao is the meaning of Miao descendants and branches. Miao is the new surname of a family after it has been separated from the clan itself. This is also a new phenomenon in the past two hundred years.

The origin of the surname of the Wa Kingdom is very similar to that of Huaxia, and it also came from official positions and places at the beginning, especially in the Wa Kingdom, where there was no major turmoil, and many official positions and places were held by a family for generations, such as the Izumo clan and the Omi clan were the clans that ruled the Izumo and Omi regions. And the one who rules Settsu is naturally the Setzu family.

- Settsu Morifu

"Ahh A chubby widow took the crystal ball and looked at it carefully, a tiger in the crystal ball was lifelike, and the eyes of the widow who looked at it were almost unable to take their eyes off.

"Settsu-sama, do you still like this gift?" Jiang De asked with a gentle shake of the folding fan.

"Good! Sure enough, it's good! Ingenuity! It's worth a fortune! Settsu Changqing sighed and put down the crystal ball and asked, "Jiang Jun is worthy of being a person from the kingdom, and this shot can be seen to be unusual." ”

"Yes, there is also this wine, and only after tasting this wine can you know what is a thing to relieve worries." Another widow praised.

"If you want me to say, this silk is the best, this smooth, better than a girl's skin." In the side room, several Japanese women listened to the words outside and whispered to the horses of silk.

This time, Jiang De took out a lot of high-end materials to give to these Japanese magnates, and everyone was really not disappointed, and all of them had fallen, and all of a sudden, Jiang De became the most popular person in this Settsu Shoufu.

"Jiang Jun, I heard that your big ships this time are all Song goods?" Settsu asked with squinted eyes.

"Hehe, it's all good goods, not to mention anything else, the tea leaves in my boat alone are enough to make the whole city of Settsu drink for a year!" Jiang De raised his finger and said, "And my goods are not only good, but also cheap, not only cheap, but also endless!" ”

"A year?" Many of the magnates in Setjin looked at Jiang De with curiosity.

Jiang De nodded and said, "If the lord of the country agrees to trade, it is not a matter to let the whole country of the country drink our tea, and the country of Japan is still a little smaller than that of Middle Earth." Just like the fine wine you drink, although it is also expensive in the Song Kingdom, it is drunk by ordinary people. ”

Everyone whispered, all the people sitting here are powerful, naturally know how much profit there is, as long as they can take the agency of these goods, they can almost instantly become the richest man in the country.

It's just that at this time, the Wa State was the same as the Song State, and all the foreign goods were purchased by the government, in fact, not only at this time, but also until the seventies and eighties of the later generations of China, the import and export were still handled by the government.

But in this way, neither the local nor the powerful can get benefits, these people are naturally unwilling, all kinds of smuggling appeared, a little closer to the Ming Dynasty endless pirates named Wakou, in fact, private ships, farther, the smuggling cases in the eighties and nineties in later generations even Huangkou children have heard of it.

To put it mildly, because of the development of information in later generations, the magnates in various places did not dare to be too public, and these magnates in ancient times, they were all local emperors, especially in a country with relatively low central ruling power, although according to the regulations, foreign ships should be purchased by the Japanese government first, and the rest can be traded freely, but in fact, a lot of goods were divided among the magnates from all over the world, and this situation also led to one of the reasons for the opening of the sea after the Heike took power.

"Jiang Jun, are you confident in convincing the lord this time?" Settsu asked, stretching his neck.

Jiang De smiled and said, "Whether it is successful or not, we actually don't care, as long as there are good goods, are you afraid that you can't sell them, those big cannibals love our goods very much." Besides, don't you have any other lords? ”

As a powerful person in the Wa Kingdom, he naturally knew what a big cannibal was, and they all nodded in agreement, in this era, the goods of China are the best things, and they are really not afraid of not being able to sell. What's more, if you really can't sell it, you can buy it, and we are not short of money.

The grapevine is always very fast, Jiang De's words in the Settsu Mansion quickly spread to the market in Settsu, the big ship staying in the port was originally the news in Settsu City these days, Jiang De's daily movement is even more curious about those goods, but these goods have not been sold, so that the market does not know how to react.

But now that everyone knows, oh, it turns out that the ship is mainly tea, so we don't have to worry... Well, except for the tea merchants.

There is also tea in the Wa Kingdom, and it is very popular, and even in later generations, the tea ceremony of the Wa Kingdom even surpassed that of Huaxia, but at this time, the tea of the Wa Kingdom was far inferior to Huaxia in terms of both output and quality.

When they knew that most of the tea on the ship was tea, the tea merchants in Setjin City began to worry, once the tea on the ship began to be dumped, they would not have to lose all the tea in their hands?

Soon, the market began to circulate, not only tea, but also cloth, wine, and porcelain from Goryeo and the Song Kingdom, and soon, these goods will be sold in Settsu, and many merchants who originally wanted to buy goods also began to wait to see if they could buy better Song goods or Korean goods.

As long as you are doing business, you know that the most feared thing about doing business is to stop buying and selling, because many costs are happening every day, such as labor, such as inventory, such as depreciation.

In the tavern, rumors spread, and in the hostel, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was kneeling in front of Jiang De to listen to Jiang De.

"Wow! Monkey, you did a good job this time, but I didn't expect that in just two or three days, you would make the entire business in Settsu almost come to a standstill. ”

Toyotomi Hideyoshi replied excitedly, "Thank you for the compliment, this is just a small thing to do." ”

"Have you chosen the next one?"

"Back to my lord, I've already chosen, it's the Miura Yoshiaki that adults have seen before!"

"Yoshiaki Miura?" Jiang De asked with some hesitation, "Why did you choose this person?" ”

Toyotomi Hideyoshi looked up and said, "This man is the second son of the Miura family, and because he could not inherit the family business, he became a samurai in the north, and he loved wine like his life, and his reckless personality was the best person to do this." ”

Jiang De walked around twice and said, "Okay, that's it, let's go down and do it." ”

Toyotomi Hideyoshi retreated, and Jiang De turned back to Huadiao and said, "Order Zhang Shun, you must be careful these days, don't spoil my big business, and make the Guards Regiment ready to fight at any time!" ”

"Yes!"

That night, a group of Japanese warriors dressed in black came to the port, they looked at the cargo ships parked in the port, each covered their faces with black cloths, and then grabbed the cargo ship with their flying claws and secretly climbed onto the ship.

"I found it, it's all tea here!"

"And here, it's all good wine!"

"We're rich! Miura-sama, these things are worth a thousand gold! ”

Yoshiaki Miura, who used to have a relationship with Jiang De, looked at the neatly arranged goods in the ship at this time, and his eyes were red.

He came this time, in fact, it was also a whim, when he was drinking today, he was about to pay, but was exempted by the hotel shopkeeper, and asked why, the shopkeeper himself spent a lot of money to save a lot of wine in the past few months, but he didn't expect that the market was full of Korean wine legends, resulting in his wine not being sold at all, just as he was talking, there were tea merchants, silk merchants, and cloth merchants who cried for their fathers and mothers, and Miura Yoshiaki, who made the samurai feel full of wine and drank again, patted his chest and said that he handed it over to himself.

No, he's here to solve the problem, and his solution to the problem is to burn all the cargo on these cargo ships or dump them into the sea. Without these goods, I think it would be fine.